If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.

You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

Those who live are those who fight.

Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.